Garden window with hide-away screen

Abstract

A window garden is comprised of a fixed frame secured to the perimeter of a window opening in a dwelling house and has an outwardly moveable sash frame fixed and hingeable to the top edge of the window frame. A pair of transparent domed members having dead air or vacuum therebetween form a plant displayable enclosure in the window which is protected from frost and obtains maximum winter sunlight when oriented in a southern exposure of a dwelling. Means such as nylon or polypropelene screen material are provided between said fixed and moveable frames to exclude insects when the domed sash frame is moveable outward to allow air to enter therebetween.

I claim: 
     
       1. A window garden for growing and displaying plants within the space enclosed, and to be positioned over the perimeter wall surface bounding a dwelling house window opening, said window garden comprising in combination; a fixed frame adapted to be secured to the perimeter wall of a dwelling house window opening; an outwardly moveable frame secured in abuttable and sealable relation to said fixed frame by means of a hinge operable between the top edges thereof;   a predominately transparent enclosure bounded by and perimetrically secured to said moveable frame and projecting outwardly therefrom relative to the fixed frame and dwelling wall surface which immediately surrounds said window opening, said enclosure consisting of a pair of nesting plastic blister domes spaced apart with dead air therebetween;   means for maintaining an insect excluding relationship between said fixed and moveable frames in any position of said moveable frame relative to said fixed frame comprising, flexible netting fastened continuously between integrally formed clip strips on the perimeter of and facing outwards of said fixed frame, and integrally formed clip strips facing toward the dwelling house wall and formed with the moveable frame, said clip strips being formed on the bottom and side edges of the frames to provide netting coverage to only that area of exposure between the open frames but not permitting any obscurity to entrance of light to the area covered by the pair of domed blisters composing the enclosure;   a toggle assembly consisting of a rack and screw means rotatable by a handle member fixed to said frame and to a pair of articulated arms attached to the moveable frame and the rack and screw for maintaining the frames in a plurality of spaced apart relationships;   and plant supporting means consisting of a plurality of spaced verticle bars fixed to said fixed frame and holding horizontally disposed shelving therebetween freely within said enclosure.   
     
     
       2. The invention according to claim 1 wherein a resilient gasket is secured to the extruded section comprising the fixed frame to secure the fixed and moveable frames together in water and air excluding mode when the toggle assembly provides a fast closure between the frames.